"Yeah, so I went there and back again, and there were, twelve other dwarves, two types of elves, men; man-eating trolls, boulder-throwing giants, evil cave-dwelling goblins, forest-dwelling giant spiders who can speak, immense and heroic eagles who also speak, evil wolves, or wargs, who are allied with the goblins, Elrond the sage, Gollum, a strange creature inhabiting an underground lake, Beorn, a man who can assume bear form and Bard the Bowman! Oh, and I got this ring… "